openLTO

openLTO is an open and neutral set of Bash scripts for handling LTO (Linear Tape-Open) cartridges of generation 5, 6, 7 and 8, formatted in LTFS, on the most current drives from HPE, IBM and Tandberg Data, on recent versions of Linux, including the Windows Subsystem for Linux, and macOS. It supports either openLTFS or numerous current LTFS implementations.

The openLTO package is released under a 3-Clause BSD License and is provided «as is» without warranty or support of any kind. The source code will become freely available, as soon as a public beta will be released. A PDF of the current man page is available.

Our clients can already install and test a private beta by running the following command:

brew install avpres/formulae/openlto

The Homebrew formula has been successfully tested on x86_64 architectures running on the following operating systems: